Microsoft ducks EU fine with Teams carve-out
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Brussels swallows concessions after years of grumbling

Microsoft has dodged a hefty EU fine by coughing up concessions on how it bundles its software, ending a four-year antitrust row.

Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
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Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring

Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia
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Ellison bets the farm on AI 

Oracle  stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.

US government blames videogames for gun violence again
Published in Gaming


Kennedy thinks pixels are deadlier than guns

The US government is once again pointing the finger at videogames for America’s gun violence epidemic, because obviously the problem cannot possibly be the guns.

AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Published in Graphics


Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing

AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”